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My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.
Season one: Great premise!
Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!
Season three: I don't know, robot ninjas or something?
I miss when shows could just grow in the first season or two, and then you'd only get raising stakes two or three times a year (season finale/premier and sweeps). Otherwise they're just stories.
These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.
The most infamous example of this is Supernatural where the first few seasons were very episodic and exactly what you described. Then, after season 5 it keep escalating until dudes are fighting off the end of the world for the 6th time lmao
I miss mid-budget live action scifi shows with strong enough episodic elements that I can actually remember individual episodes. These days seemingly every show feels like an 8-12 movie that blurs together.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the closest current thing to an exception. Before that The Orville.
Most other scifi that comes out has to be an "event".
Kamen Rider.
The Orville had that in the first season or so, after that it went heavy into serialization. I dont think I even finished whatever the last season was because of it.
Hah, yes!
Just finished season 3 of Yellowjackets and White Lotus and I just felt, meh. I'm hopeful for season 4 of both shows but I'll be living off the honeymoon phase from seasons 1 and 2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
Oh, this is about Riverdale, isn't it?
Riverdale actually did what I've always wished for a boring failure of a show to do, and just completely go nuts.
Oh our boring high school drama show is slumping? How about an organ stealing cult, a superhero, and a guy escaping from the cops in a rocketship!
Its more that they have to keep the money train going, than they have to outdo themselves.